Severely beaten at one point, and malnourished by a diet of goat's liver, rice and spaghetti, they endured mental and physical torment that would send a lot of people - and certainly me - quite mad.
You are minding your own business, eating something like an ice cream cone, a milk shake, a snow cone... Then, suddenly you are hit with the most excruciating headache!
And they were all striving, and suffering, and in torment, and sullying their souls, their eternal souls, to attain a bliss the duration of which was but a moment.
Dog-fighting victims are tortured and killed for profit and "sport", yet their criminal abusers often receive a minimal sentence for causing a lifetime of pain.